Comic 933 - Random Art Sunday

Author Notes:

When I was in high school, I did a project on Edgar Allan Poe in an English Literature class. Pretty much every American kid's had to read some of his stories or poetry--"The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Raven"--but for about two weeks, I lived and ate and breathed Poe. The man was talented and brilliant and disturbed and very, very sad; I wanted to give him a hug and then feed him handfuls of lithium tablets.

The final stanza of "Annabel Lee" has haunted me ever since that project. At completely random times, for no reason I can discern, those lines will drift across my mind and bring a vivid image with them. For years, I've wanted to illustrate that image somehow, but my drawing skills were never up to the task.

DAZ Studio, however, has given me the outlet I needed to take that image out of my head and let me share it. Hopefully it finds favor.

I believe that from now on I'll have that image in my head when I think of this poem. Well done Rose. It's a great moment when you realize that you've successfully completed a work that has been on your mind for a long time isn't it? I've found that Poe is one of those writers who could evoke powerful images to the point that I'm reading the words but only seeing the image. I've found a very few writers that can do that and in my opinion, Poe was better at that kinda thing than anyone else. If you have anything else like this, I'm sure that we'd all like to see it.

Try reading "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe. That would leave you screaming or drive you crazy just by remember it when ever you hear any type of bells going off. Had to listen to the recording of it in my High School (Engish Lit.) by a very good actor of the time.

Thanks for the positive feedback. :) It makes me nervous to trot out something that has as much weight for me as this particular piece, and I'm glad to find that I'm not quite as inadequate as I thought. :)

Whoops. Yeah, you are going to have to adjust to that, aren't you. Of course, you don't have to deal with Daily Savings time, Arizona doesn't use it if I remember right. So right now you are 3 hours ahead of East Coast? Yup, kind of messed up. At least he got you fixed up and working. :-)

In my acting days I was part of a choir made up of actors of mostly broadway level talent. We had a few concerts and lasted maybe 5 years before we broke up. We would do original compositions by new york composers.
On of our favorite pieces was a rendition of Annabel Lee as a four part harmony. It was really quite beautiful.

Great page, Tokyo Rose! Poe's works are so creepy, that I used to paraphrase them late at night, by the campfire.

I've gotta say, though, that Centcomm's typo has me creeped out almost worse than Poe. "hiya one nad all" What does that mean? Does that mean that every guy has to give up one of his nads? I'm very attached to both of mine. I don't even wanna think about the methods of separation and distribution! I'm all for gender equality, but I draw the line at "one nad all" ;)